Can We Be Objective?

It has been said that people see their own children as preferable to anyone else’s. Might this be true for the photographs that we take too?

I wonder how objective we can be of our own creations? I know for sure that I have an emotional as well as aesthetic connection to my photographs. The process of composing, editing and publishing means an image shared is considered worthy. At the end of the process the chosen ones have a special place in my heart.

Therefore the photographs I publish are always personal. They connect me to an experience, a place, a feeling that I hope to convey. They are highly subjective too, because they only truly hold such emotions for me and me alone.

I am deeply blinded by my personal attachment to them. I often wonder how other people might view them. Whether the images by themselves come close to communicating, on any level, what I hope to share.